Polystyrene hardening product

[georgetheforge]

Hey Adam-

yeah I'm dipping my toe in CNC-! wondering if it's worth it time-wise/ cost-wise!

Where do you work?

It's a tough one re the comparison as a tub of hardkote is £70 odd quid and covered the pumpkin so in my view pretty good value... its a bit 'crispier' than foamcoat, and leaves a stone effect finish which i think Gasant was after- and i couldn't push a finger through it-!

foam coats nice stuff but a pain in the arse to sand to get really smooth. Saying that Alasdair from Flints did a seminar thing spraying it through a SATA pressurized pot on a spray gun, and it was pretty slick. nice if you've got loads to do as it goes on super smooth..therefore no sanding!!

Forgot about jesmonite... could be a good one.

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[Musht]

>>yeah I'm dipping my toe in CNC-! wondering if it's worth it time-wise/ cost-wise!

Kind of figuring knowing nothing was going to be a bad place to be in next few years ;-)

Its great if you need more than one of something or same thing repeated in different scales, with things like your Pumpkin , guess a talented sculptor is a going to be quicker and probably cheaper ;-)

National seem quite keen on theirs

http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/38...c-machine.html


>>Where do you work?

For myself nowadays, LED lighting for a variety of things, shop and bar interiors mainly and occasionaly theatre and rock`n`roll, it pays the bills.

Started looking at CNC for panel cutting and PCB milling and then started looking at foam cutting etc etc....

http://3dcutting.com/

occurs to me could probably sacrifice some rigidity for size if designed to cut foam and not alloy.




>>It's a tough one re the comparison as a tub of hardkote is £70 odd quid and covered the pumpkin so in my view pretty good value...

Thats impressive coverage , more tha would have thought , thanks.

>>its a bit 'crispier' than foamcoat, and leaves a stone effect finish which i think Gasant was after- and i couldn't push a finger through it-!

You need to be under 10 to get something through it ;-)

>foam coats nice stuff but a pain in the arse to sand to get really smooth. Saying that Alasdair from Flints did a seminar thing spraying it through a SATA pressurized pot on >a spray gun, and it was pretty slick. nice if you've got loads to do as it goes on super smooth..therefore no sanding!!

Only thng with spraying, loads of clean up, the guns the pots , the collatearl damage..great if have load to cover though.

>Forgot about jesmonite... could be a good one.


For the OP another couple of recipes:

http://www.controlbooth.com/forums/s...e-recipie.html , latex in American means synthetic latex, water based acrylic.

http://www.game-terrain.info/articles/goop.html

Cheers
Adam


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